jQuery UI: Drag and clone from original div, but keep clones
- by Nic Hubbard
I have a div, which has jQuery UI Draggable applied. What I want to do, is click and drag that, and create a clone that is kept in the dom and not removed when dropped.
Think of a deck of cards, my box element is the deck, and I want to pull cards/divs off that deck and have them laying around my page, but they would be clones of the original div. I just want to make sure that you cannot create another clone of one of the cloned divs.
I have used the following, which didn't work like I wanted:
$(".box").draggable({
axis: 'y',
containment: 'html',
start: function(event, ui) {
$(this).clone().appendTo('body');
}
});
